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Having Acupuncture
223 Patients currently have Acupuncture
113 Patients stopped having Acupuncture
Chelena Sex: F Depression: 3 Emotional: 2 Compulsion: 1 Anxiety: 3 Mania: 1 Physical: 2 External Stress: Overwhelming 54 F Function: Low Distress: Moderate See profile Chelena 1other as needed since Jun 14, 1990
shoppingforhealth Sex: M Mental Symptoms: mild Physical Symptoms: none Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none 267 VL < 50 See profile shoppingforhealth weekly since Jan 08, 1991
minnielee Sex: F Pain: Little Fatigue: None Sleep: Little Stiffness: Some function: All external_stress: Most Stickman: little Description:F37y FM:7y Dx CFS:?y See profile minnielee 20 min monthly since Jan 01, 2004

What is Acupuncture? Acupuncture is a technique of inserting and manipulating needles into specific points on the body. These lie on 'chi meriridans', lines of energy flowing through the body from specific organs. Acupuncture aims to disrupt blockages of chi energy that accumulate in these points to improve health. Read more...

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Reasons had

336 patients in the community are having or have had Acupuncture.

Top 10 (Show all)

Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Pain	59	17%
General health	46	13%
Slow my ALS progress	45	13%
Other	35	10%
Treat Parkinson's	20	5%
Stiffness/Spasticity	17	5%
Slow my MS progress	9	2%
Fatigue	8	2%
Treat my mood condition(s)	8	2%
disease-related symptoms	4	1%
Migraine Headaches	4	1%
Support another treatment	3	<1%
Back pain	3	<1%
Fasciculations	3	<1%
Improve immune function	2	<1%
Mobility	2	<1%
Don't know	2	<1%
Dizziness	2	<1%
Insomnia	2	<1%
Neuralgia	1	<1%
NERVE PAIN ARM	1	<1%
Stress	1	<1%
Nerve pain (neuropathic pain)	1	<1%
Anxiety	1	<1%
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)	1	<1%
chronic daily headache	1	<1%
Sleep problems	1	<1%
Assistive communication	1	<1%
fatigue and sleep problems	1	<1%
Fibromyalgia	1	<1%
Major Depressive Disorder	1	<1%
Brain fog	1	<1%
pain and fatigue	1	<1%
bilateral shoulder, upper back pain upon movement and worsens with repetitive movement	1	<1%
to open flow of energy. Theory energy blockages preceeds physical illness	1	<1%
pain,stress,sleeplessness	1	<1%
Fibromyalgia pain	1	<1%
Pain, Fatigue, anxiety	1	<1%
Bladder problems	1	<1%
Numbness	1	<1%
pain, fatigue and help sleep	1	<1%
Bell's Palsy, mood conditions	1	<1%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 50 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major	56%	5
Moderate	11%	1
Slight	33%	3

General health

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe	4%	2
Moderate	6%	3
Mild	22%	11
None	68%	34

Top reported side-effects include: things sometimes get worse before they get better, worsening of symptoms, Fatigue

Summary results are based on 50 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 50)

Mr. Kamakazie

Sex: M

Sensation: Moderate

Overall: Mild

Cognition: moderate

Vision: moderate

Speech: mild

Swallowing: mild

Upper limb: moderate

Walking: moderate

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by Mr. Kamakazie
Sep 14, 2008

EfficacyModerate
Side-effectsNone

General health

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ALS Boy

Sex: M

Mouth/throat: moderate

Arms: moderate

Chest: none

Legs: moderate

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by ALS Boy
Oct 18, 2008

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Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 50)